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Words that have two meanings that are opposites: let's bash these TTTs
| Wonderful Beta House Mad Cow Disease | 02/15/22 |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:16 PM Author: Wonderful Beta House Mad Cow Disease fucking "deceptively"
"the question was deceptively simple" can mean that it seems simple but isn't, OR that it doesn't seem simple but it is
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:17 PM Author: brindle misunderstood theatre mood Oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974433) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:18 PM Author: Wonderful Beta House Mad Cow Disease ooh good one!
"this oversight was a result of a serious lack of oversight" |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:18 PM Author: Comical aquamarine ticket booth That's not a function of the word but of pragmatics pertaining to the properties of the question. I thought this thread was about stuff like innervate / enervate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974438) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:22 PM Author: Wonderful Beta House Mad Cow Disease fine - i mean words that CAN, depending on context, mean two things that are opposites*
but innervate/enervate is welcome here too, equally TTT |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:35 PM Author: Comical aquamarine ticket booth Broadly speaking, any word can have two opposite meanings in the sense you mean if you vary the pragmatics—that is why irony is possible and so rich in language. Your issue seems to be with imprecision introduced by using a word like "deceptively" to modify an adjective, since there's ambiguity about whether what is "deceptive" is the easiness or the initial appearance while the true nature is easy.
The meaning can be cleaned up a bit by just modifying the word order and punctuation: "Deceptively, the test was simple" to my ear sounds like the test was in fact simple; "The test was simple—deceptively" sounds to me like it appeared simple but that appearance was deceptive.
Still, all told this is an unfortunate construction and best avoided altogether save when strategic ambiguity is the goal. |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:41 PM Author: Wonderful Beta House Mad Cow Disease credited analysis ty!! i don't necessarily share your interpretations of the two examples you gave, but good call about the ambiguity of what "deceptively" is modifying
and yeah i realized after poasting that someone was probably going to point out that ANY word can mean diff things based on context >__> |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:22 PM Author: Razzmatazz bronze chad need julia here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974454) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:23 PM Author: floppy brunch queen of the night inflammable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974458) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: Crusty costumed affirmative action foreskin (dr. nick) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974466) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: Wonderful Beta House Mad Cow Disease well the issue with that one is that the two words sound like opposites but are synonyms. also TTT. i'm guessing the "in" is from "inflame" but i'm too lazy to verify (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974475) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:24 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle Self-absorbed Yarmulke cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974462) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:26 PM Author: Wonderful Beta House Mad Cow Disease titc cleave (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974477) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:06 PM Author: Curious trailer park that one was my contribution the last time we did this thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43978151) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:25 PM Author: sooty space regret so far oversight is the only one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974468) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: overrated charismatic prole marketing idea Sanction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974480) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Thirsty offensive stag film water buffalo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974481) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:28 PM Author: Wonderful Beta House Mad Cow Disease another good one! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974485) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:27 PM Author: Greedy snowy sanctuary faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974482) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: Wonderful Beta House Mad Cow Disease 🤔🤔🤔 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974524) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:29 PM Author: overrated charismatic prole marketing idea Overlook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974492) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:31 PM Author: Wonderful Beta House Mad Cow Disease cr similar to oversight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974509) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:30 PM Author: overrated charismatic prole marketing idea They're called contronyms btw, u can find huge lists (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974499) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:32 PM Author: Wonderful Beta House Mad Cow Disease tyty! it would be funny if "contronym" also meant "words that sound like antonyms but are synonyms" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974513) |
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Date: February 16th, 2022 3:04 PM Author: overrated charismatic prole marketing idea (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43978133) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:36 PM Author: Comical aquamarine ticket booth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974536) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:33 PM Author: topaz soul-stirring hunting ground giraffe science (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974519) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:42 PM Author: Wonderful Beta House Mad Cow Disease lol, fair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974557) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:34 PM Author: Carnelian arousing roast beef school cavalier (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974525) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:43 PM Author: Wonderful Beta House Mad Cow Disease rly? what are the two meanings? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974559) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:35 PM Author: carmine galvanic ratface moot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974531) |
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Date: February 15th, 2022 9:44 PM Author: Wonderful Beta House Mad Cow Disease whoa i didn't even know it had the "debatable" meaning; i always just used it to mean "irrelevant" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#43974567) |
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Date: April 7th, 2026 10:21 PM Author: oomox (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5032956&forum_id=2)#49802525) |